Kol's POV Chapter 1:

The Roads were dark when I approached the house. The sounds of the waves crashing against the shore welcomed me. It was private and secluded and right on the Atlantic Ocean. As I pulled into the garage, I listened for them inside. I heard low breathes coming from the bedroom and I heard the sound of a rocking chair on the deck. As I walked into the house, I tried to hold myself together. The hollow lives within me now and it churned to be let free. Davina slept in the room soundly. I kissed her forehead and made my way to the deck that overlooked the ocean. She sat there staring off into the water, stirring her tea.

"How was the trip?" she told me as I approached and sat down.

"It was long and lonely, but I couldn't take Davina with me to that place, she's finally free." I told her.

"She tried to stay up and wait, but I knew you would be late." She told me. After a brief paused she asked. "Is it done then?" She wore a grim face. She was against my plan to help my family. She didn't want us to risk that kind of evil within us.

"Hope is safe." I told her. She turned away from me.

"You are all fools." She muttered.

"What choice did we have?! It was killing my niece." I told her. My temper took her by surprise and she became calm.

"I'm sorry." She said. "It can't be easy to be apart from your family, when you're all finally getting along." She told me.

"Our separation is worth it, if Hope can stay safe and have a normal childhood." I said.

"And Niklaus loses everything." She whispered.

"Nik's resilient, he'll be okay." I lied to her. I was honestly worried about my brother's sanity but I knew where this was going.

"Maybe I could help him." My head snapped up and I was shaking my head before she finished her sentence.

"They think you've been dead for four hundred years, sweetheart. They are forced to start anew. They have nothing now and they would not hesitate to kill you again." I told her.

"Your siblings can't go near him without helping the hollow. They will never know."

"He will know that something happened. If you go to him and if he finds out the truth about what they did. He will go confront them. And then all of this." I pointed at myself. ", will have been for nothing." She stared at me.

"It's not right Kol; I spent so many years without him, emotionless. I'm finally in a good place, where I have the ability to help him, and I can't." She told me.

"The love that you and my brother shared was grand, I remember, but its run its course. Let it be. In the end it would only hurt him more than he's already hurting." I told her. She nodded and wiped the tears away and started staring back at the ocean. I sat with her in silence. I thought about how we'd met her so long ago.

New Orleans PAST

"Nik we're missing the entire party." I told him. He rummaged through the streets, searching for something.

"Stop whining and use your senses. Do you smell that? A lot of blood, and since the witches are protecting the compound and all our vampire allies are there, we have to find who's the cause of all this." He explained. The smell grew stronger and I grew hungry. We ended on the steps of a church. His body was that of a human, but it had been deformed. There were deep gouges all over his body, but he seemed to be empty of any blood. His skin gripped to the bone and he looked depleted of air. His blood dripped down the stairs and into the street.

"It was probably a werewolf. Who else could leave marks like this and spill no much blood?" I told him.

"Do you hear that?" I shook my head. "Listen." He said. I tried to hear what he heard, but it was impossible. He started walking towards the compound blindly. I followed him, until we reached the doors. Standing outside, stood my some of my closest friends here. Annette, Lucretia, and Adrienne. They were witches. Niklaus walked to them and stopped.

"What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be protecting the compound?"

"Linny told us to wait for you Kol." Annette said. Lucretia smiled and Adrienne watched Klaus. He watched her too.

"It's alright Nik, they're with me." I said. He stared at me and then back to Adrienne.

"Perhaps while you speak to Linny, your lovely friends could keep me company." he told me, staring up at me. The girls looked nervous.

"Nik."

"Oh relax Kol, it's a party. What is it you think is going to happen?" he told me curiously. "I promise to behave Brother." he said smiling. I sighed; I wasn't going to win this fight.

"Go on girls, have a drink. Kick up your feet." I told them. Annette stayed behind to talk.

"Go on ahead, I'll catch up." she said. Lucy walked unwillingly inside while Adrienne looked excited. I waited for them to disappear towards the music. Linny walked towards us as we waited. She looked nervous. I watched her carefully.

"What's happened?" I asked her.

"There is a darkness that haunts our city. I can sense it. It's unlike anything I've ever witnessed." She told me.

"We don't know what it wants, but we can't find out where it's come from." Annette interjected.

"If we don't find out soon, our Elders will have to perform a harvest to bring upon more power from the ancestors." Lonny explained.

"Why is that bad?" I asked.

"If the ancestors connect with the coven in that way once more, it will be the end of our alliance, and possibly the end of your family residing in New Orleans." Annette answered.

"We cannot fight the ancestors Kol." Linny said.

"I don't expect you to." I told them. "What do we need to do?"

"We have to find the darkness and you have to end it." Linny spoke.

"Why me?" I asked.

"You have to prove that you are on our side. If the elders see you help us, they may decide against the harvest." Annette answered me.

"Where do we begin?" I asked.

"We've cast a spell, to contain the darkness within the compound. Only we will be able to come and go." Linny said.

"You've trapped my family in there with this thing?!" I yelled and ran inside. The party continued through the troubles outside. People danced and drank and I watched them all carefully, panic stricken. Elijah laughed with the men in his inner circle. Rebekah danced with her gentlemen callers. When I found Klaus I was surprised to see the girls at ease. Lucy swayed to the music and Adrienne and Klaus were sitting next to each other talking.

"What a tragedy it must be like to live forever." She told him.

"Tragedy? I have walked this earth for nearly 600 hundred years. I've traveled the world, seen countless wonders. Are you telling me that if given the opportunity you would not want immortality?" He asked her.

"You can either be a vampire or a witch. You cannot be both sweetheart. So I choose my magic." She quipped. They laughed.

"Well I see you've been having a good time." I said. They looked up at me and Adrienne nodded.

"Yes you've hidden away quite a treasure, Kol." Klaus said. I nodded. Lucy came to me and took my hand.

"Dance with me Kol." She begged. I looked back at my brother who waved me forward.

"Go on we have quite a discussion ahead of us." he said to me. I followed Lucy out to the dance floor, but I listened in on them. It made me nervous that they were alone.

"You are quite an interesting creature." He told her.

"You have no idea." She said. "I've wanted to meet you for a while." She told him.

"And what has taken you so long." He asked her.

"The other witches say you're dangerous and badly tempered. I was told to stay away." She confessed.

"Why didn't you heed their warning?" He asked.

"I'm not afraid of you." She said.

"Really and why not? Most people do." He said.

"I am not most people and I see right through you."

"What do you see?" He asked.

"You're misunderstood. I see great power within you." I stopped dancing and walled back. "There's a beast that wants to be let free." She said.

When I walked in they were staring into each other's eyes.

"What did you tell her?!" He said to me. "Sharing family secrets with your witch friends?! How about I kill them all and bury a dagger in your heart!" He yelled.

"I told her nothing!" I said. Elijah appeared and then Rebekah.

"We have guests Niklaus, relax." He said, but he didn't instead he grabbed Adrienne and pushed her against the wall. His hand gripped her throat. Her smile never disappeared.

"What else has my brother told you?" He asked her through his teeth.

"All this anger within you is your werewolf half trying to come out." She spoke. "Kol has told me nothing." She said.

"Let her go Nik!" I yelled. Lucy who was beside me ran out, probably to get the others. "Now Klaus."

"Leave her Nik; we don't need a war with the witches." Rebekah said, but then he was thrown from Adrienne's body. She stood still and raised a hand.

"I am not your average witch." She said. Klaus stood and took a step towards her. "I was offering you an alliance, but I can see now that you are not ready." She said. "I will be leaving now." She told them.

"No you're not." He replied and lunged onto her. What happened next astounded me to no end. As Niklaus attempted to drain her, she plunged her fingers into his back and a glow came from within him. He pulled back in agony and she stood still. I watched as her wounds healed themselves and she looked up at me.

"Adrienne?" I called out. Rebekah knelt by Klaus side and Elijah stared at her.

"What are you?" He asked her.

"I can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy. The choice is yours." She told them and turned to walk out as the girls beckoned her. I watched her leave and I watched Klaus stay paralyzed in pain until she left. It was an amazing sight.